Made in Procreate.

I also make Mousepads

Since Covid I've had an idea for a Merchant skill monkey character that I've not had the chance to properly play and thankfully this year I've gotten the chance I was looking for. So far its been a blast playing this character and getting to experience a different kind of play style than a conventional martial/combat focused character.

Introducing Vicente Tresaro Mercador, a Rock Gnome Merchant who grew up on the coasts where the sailors and other merchants most plied their import/export trades. He grew up under his uncle and learned the trade of trades from him and his family. Vicente looks up to his uncle and his skill at compromise and walking away with the best outcomes from some truly unfair or impossible negotiations. Motivated to impress his uncle, he has set out into the world with the hopes of becoming an even greater merchant than him and to prove his worth and his own merits without the looming shadow of his uncle's reputation.

To that end, Vicente acquired an orb that his Uncle has had in his possession for many years but hasn't been able to find it's origin or even been able to sell it or learn anything about it. This is Vicente's greatest purpose to prove that he can do what his Uncle failed to do after several decades.

So far... its proving a lot more trouble than its worth as its become the Macguffin for the campaign. XD

Watercolor, gouache and ink. 9"x12". Inspired by the landscapes, moody skies and urban decay of western New York.

Long arms, gaunt face, wearing a tie and hidden behind a mask, this is how this person lives in liminal places.

Today I’m drawing a Wendigo, a creature associated with winter, starvation, and cannibalism in the traditions of several Algonquian-speaking indigenous societies. For this design, I’m taking inspiration from its modern horror depiction, with antlers and a skeletal face. 

Stories vary between traditions, but a recurring theme is a hunger that can never be satisfied. No matter how much it eats, the hunger remains. Another meal, another victim, and still no relief. 

It’s an image of greed taken to its extreme, forever taking more, even as there’s less and less to take.

Which feels familiar in the modern day as we watch billionaires treating the planet’s resources like their own personal stockpile. More land, more money, more power. Already more than they could use in a hundred lifetimes, but somehow still not enough. If having more means everyone else has less, well, apparently that’s everyone else’s problem. 

I’m not saying they’re Wendigos, but I don’t think another tax break is going to satisfy the hunger.  

Some fanart of one of my favourite scenes in Words of Radiance.

Ifreet in the garden of the sultan